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  • Kiwi Everest climber Edmund Hillary hailed as a great Briton

    Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper. Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported. The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on ...

  • Daniel Vettori set for NZ Test return this week

    New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori is set to return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England. But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...

  • Indian-origin men in New Zealand face gang-rape charges

    A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011. Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26, are defending the charges in the high court in Hamilton, Fairfax NZ News reported Tuesday. The woman has claimed that the four men raped her in the course of an evening during the ...

  • Ian Bell to recover in time for second test against New Zealand

    England middle order batsman Ian Bell is expected to recover from tonsillitis and play against New Zealand in the second test match starting from Friday. Bell's illness got him a score of 31 runs for 133 balls during the second innings at Lord's, and England's medical team is confident that there will not be a relapse this time. The Independent reports that once Bell is fit, there won't be any ...

  • Bracewell replaces Ellis in Champions Trophy squad

    Ellis, 31, was injured in Christchurch, while training for the three-match ODI series in England and the Champions Trophy. Bracewell is also making a comeback after missing the Test series at home against England earlier this year. Currently in England with the Test side, he failed to make the XI for the Lord's Test that concluded on ...

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8MM

8MM

According to screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, the idea behind "8MM" was a single scene: a rich old man dies, and when his safe is opened, a snuff film is found among the cash and stock certificates. A simple idea, and for most of its duration, "8MM" does a good, if somewhat stomach-churning, job of exploring a logical story that might follow such a discovery. It is only in its last half-hour, wh ... ...

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  • Cat wars break out in New Zealand

    Call it the Kiwi cat wars. In the island nation said to harbour more cat owners per capita than any other country, a furore has broken out over a crusade to eradicate man's second-best friend. The charge is being led ...

  • NZ snub Fiji centenary Test request

    New Zealand have put a damper on Fiji's 100th anniversary celebrations, by claiming they are too busy to play the islanders in a commemorative Test. The Fijian Rugby Union wrote to the New Zealand Rugby Union last August requesting a June Test against the All Blacks in Suva, Fiji's capital, to mark the occasion.But the NZRU rejected their offer citing the World Cup winners' ...

  • Timaru takes a stand against legal highs

    The meeting was called to raise awareness of the dangers of synthetic cannabis and follows pressure put on local dairy owners to stop selling the drugs. Over the last few weeks there have been protests up and down the country as desperate communities try to convince stores to voluntarily take legal highs off their shelves. Timaru's Mayor Janie Annear says dairies in the town have ...

  • State of the Nation New Zealand all about attitudes

    If, as Winston Churchill once remarked, attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference, then Wellington, Auckland and the rest of New Zealand are diverse indeed. As the latest Roy Morgan State of the Nation New Zealand reveals, the different attitudes of Kiwis around the country offer a fascinating glimpse into its varied population. A progressive reputation With its ...

  • Wellington wild for smartphones RMR State Of The Nation NZ

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